Visitors, Books and Woodwork

[inamac]

It seems ages since I posted anything. Last week (or possibly the week before, depending on when you deem a week to start) we had Chris visiting. We took the opportunity to go and see 'The Wolverine' together (a film that is so very so-so that I've not felt up to reviewing it - three stars, may get round to it when the DVD is out) and a trip to

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[delphipsmith]

my current reading project - Dorothy Sayers (and Jill Paton Walsh's) Peter Wimsey novels

I adore the Peter Wimsey books! So well-written, and he's such a delightful character, so complex and funny and kind and moral. I don't even mind that she marries him off to a lady novelist, since I like Harriet as well and they seem so suited to each other (unlike certain other canon pairings which shall remain nameless *koff*ronhermione*koff*).

And the bit with Peter and Harriet on the riverbank in Gaudy Night is one of the most drop-dead sexiest scenes ever written, even though neither of them says a single word and they're not even touching. Makes me go all woozy every time I read it. If you don't know the one I mean, don't worry, you can't miss it -- you'll know it when you get to it :)

[inamac]

Lil did remark to me that Harriet is very like Hermione (bright and with an odd relationship with The Hero), though Ron is nothing like Peter.

Of course Gaudy Night is a terribly 'privileged' novel - and I am grateful to the internets for providing translations of all that Latin for those of us born after Classics were dropped from the general education curriculum.

It also makes me very grateful that I never subjected myself to the horror that is the University System (I wonder how many other students of my generation were similarly put off by the picture that Sayers painted.)